has since accepted the Law of Thelema, a religion which claims to supersede Christianity, it is no longer concerned with apostolic succession deriving from Jesus.

The most well known version is that written by Gerald Gardner, and includes material paraphrased works by Aleister Crowley, primarily from Liber ALThe Book of the Law ( particularly from Ch 1, spoken by Nuit, the Star Goddess ), and from his Liber XV: the Gnostic Mass as well as Liber LXV ( Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, or the Book of the Heart Girt with the Serpent ), thus linking modern Wicca irrevocably to the cosmology and revelations of Thelema.

There are some that believe the Thelemic New Year falls on either 19, 20 or 21 March, depending on the vernal equinox, this is The Feast for the Equinox of the Gods which is held on the vernal equinox of each year to commemorate the founding of Thelema in 1904.

Among those who do believe in it, there are a variety of different views as to what magic is, but many Pagans adhere to the definition of magic provided by the founder of Thelema, Aleister Crowley, who defined it as " the Science and Art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will.

The Unicursal Hexagram is one of the common symbols of Thelema

Thelema is a spiritual philosophy ( referred to by some as a religion ) that was developed by the early 20th century British writer and ceremonial magician, Aleister Crowley.

The word " Thelema " itself is the English transliteration of the Koine Greek noun: " will ", from the verb θέλω: to will, wish, purpose.

Liber AL vel Legis is the central sacred text of Thelema, written by Aleister Crowley, who claimed it was dictated to him by a discarnate entity named " Aiwass ".

* Wolf's bane is used as an analogy for the power of divine communion in Liber 65 1: 13-16, one of Aleister Crowley's Holy Books of Thelema:

Important to Thelema ( the term itself meaning " will ") is the notion of a difference between mundane " will " and True Will, the latter of which is the purposed fulfillment of human beings through a process of esoteric methods employed to achieve self-realization.

Liber AL vel Legis, also known as The Book of the Law, is the foundational text for Thelema.

** Liber CCXX: Liber AL vel Legis sub Figura CCXX: The Book of the Law — Among the Holy Books of Thelema, the chief is The Book of the Law.

His works often make reference Aleister Crowley, although he is not publicly a follower of Crowley's Thelema religion.

A pentacle ( or pantacle in Thelema ) is an amulet used in magical evocation, generally made of parchment, paper or metal ( although it can be of other materials ), on which the symbol of a spirit or energy being evoked is drawn.

In Thelema knowledge and conversation with one's Holy Guardian Angel is the purpose of life.

The book was written with highly symbolic imagery and is integral to Crowley's explication of his Law of Thelema.

She can be seen as an ecstatic feminine form of what is called in some theologies " the Absolute " and as such can be seen as cognate with the Star Goddess Nuit of Thelema.

He has also focused upon occult themes in many of his films, being fascinated by the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley, and is a follower of Crowley's religion, Thelema.

Another recurring theme in Anger's films is that of the occult, particularly the symbolism of his own esoteric religion, Thelema.

* A greeting among Thelemites, 93 is the numerological value of Thelema ( Will ) and Agape ( Love ) in Greek letters.

In a more contemporary area, the idea of dialectical monism is expressed in the central book of Thelema, Liber AL vel Legis:

Traditionalist conservatism is a political philosophy emphasizing the need for the principles of natural law and transcendent moral order, tradition, hierarchy and organic unity, agrarianism, classicism and high culture, and the intersecting spheres of loyalty.

In perennialist usage, esotericism is a metaphysical concept referring to a supposed “ transcendent unity ” of all great religious traditions.

The central point of Irenaeus ' theology is the unity and the goodness of God, in opposition to the Gnostics ' division of God into a number of divine " Aeons ", and their distinction between the utterly transcendent " High God " and the inferior " Demiurge " who created the world.

Here, the concept of adherence tradition is embodied by the political philosophy of traditionalist conservatism ( or simply traditionalism ), which emphasizes the need for the principles of natural law and transcendent moral order, hierarchy and organic unity, agrarianism, classicism and high culture, and the intersecting spheres of loyalty.

In one of his most poetic passages, Rank suggests that this transcendent feeling implies not only a " spiritual unity " between artist and enjoyer, I and Thou, but also " with a Cosmos floating in mystic vapors in which present, past, and future are dissolved " ( Rank, 1932 / 1989, p. 113 )-- an identity with " the ALL " that once was but is no more.

For the dialectical monist, the essential unity is that of complementary polarities, which, while opposed in the realm of experience and perception, are co-substantial in a transcendent sense.

Reality was unthinkable, except in relation to the activity by means of which it becomes thinkable, positing that as a unity — held in the active subject and the discrete abstract phenomena that reality comprehends — wherein each phenomenon, when truly realised, was centered within that unity ; therefore, it was innately spiritual, transcendent, and immanent, to all possible things in contact with the unity.

" Integral Tradition " does not have a human origin, and consists of eternal principles of divine origin, calling man back to what Schuon called a " transcendent unity ".

In the Hindu tradition, the saying Tat Tvam Asi ; " That Art Thou ", refers to the principal unity between the uncreated element in the human soul ( Atman ) and the transcendent reality itself ( Brahman ); one without a second (" Thou Art ").

The novel starts with an imaginative description of the evolution of this superintelligence through exponentially accelerating developmental stages, culminating in a transcendent, nigh-omnipotent power that is unfathomable to mere humans.

Both religions reject the view that God is entirely transcendent, and thus separate from the world, as the pre-Christian Greek Unknown God.

Philosophical Taoism also proposes a transcendent operant principle — transliterated in English as tao or dao, meaning ' the way ' — which is neither an entity or a being per se, but reflects the natural ongoing process of the world.

God is thus conceived to be wholly transcendent and never immanent.

In this faith, God is described as both Nirgun ( transcendent ) and Sargun ( immanent ).

In the Eastern Orthodox Philokalia it was emphasized that such knowledge is not secret knowledge but rather a maturing, transcendent form of knowledge derived from contemplation ( theoria resulting from practice of hesychasm ), since knowledge cannot truly be derived from knowledge but rather knowledge can only be derived from theoria ( to witness, see ( vision ) or experience ).

The material world, as he dubs it, contains the “ mere supernatural ” which is not a transcendent reality but a vague treasure that belongs solely to humans.

Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious, cosmological, mythological, or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings ( such as a God, angels, the jinn, and sky deities like King or Queen of Heaven, Heavenly Father, Heavenly Mother, Son of Heaven, heavenly saints or venerated ancestors ) originate, are enthroned or inhabit.

Whereas Jewish philosophers often debate whether God is immanent or transcendent, and whether people have free will or their lives are determined, Halakha is a system through which any Jew acts to bring God into the world.

In addition, monists can be Deists, Pandeists, Theists, Naturalists, or Panentheists ; believing in a monotheistic god that is omnipotent and all-pervading, and both transcendent and immanent.

While pantheism means that the totality of all that exists is God, panentheism means All is in God, the divine being both immanent and transcendent.

In the Hindu religion, Brahman ( Devanāgarī: ब ् रह ् मन ् bráhman ) is the eternal, unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe.

Monistic theism, which includes the concept of a personal god as a universal, omnipotent Supreme Being who is both immanent and transcendent, is prevalent within many other schools of Hinduism as well.

The existence of a transcendent being extraneous to nature is denied.

The one God is omnipotent and all-pervading, the universe is part of God, and God is both immanent and transcendent.

Muslims believe that God is eternal, transcendent, absolutely one ( the doctrine of tawhid, or strict or simple monotheism ), and incomparable ; that he is self-sustaining, who begets not nor was begotten.